The particular form the element is in also matters a lot.
Take helium, for example. Is it really possible to 'lick' a gas? I'd say it's not. You could lick liquid helium, though ... and you really shouldn't, unless you enjoy severe frostbite on your tongue.
if i stick my tongue out i would probably consider that as licking air, so you would just have to be submerged in that gas for a long enough time to lick it
What? No. The Leidenfrost effect would apply. You could pour a few milliliters of liquid helium over your tongue and it would boil on contact. You just need to make sure to minimize total contact time.
It's 100% accurate. But just in case, could you have the map on you when you go around licking things? The resultant news article will be way funnier that way.
Some of the purple ones have a time limit to lick them before you die that starts once you enter the room they are kept. You'll still die after licking them, but you would at least have licked it if you're quick.
Many can't be "kept" on the time scale of licking. And for some, the confirmed number of atoms ever existing is too low for any sensation or measurable radiation exposure during their violent but tiny decay. But if the particle accelerator beam, the only place they ever existed, crossed your head... we unfortunately know what happens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#Accident
Oganesson has a half-life of about 0.7 ms and is excruciatingly difficult to synthesize in a way that even lasts on the order of milliseconds. The beam it's created in is sent to a semiconductor detector. You'd be stretching the definition of "lick" very heavily if you could even convolute a way to make it land on the human tongue.
If you can get your tongue inside the machinery they use at Lawrence Livermore to create a split-second instance of some rare Earth actinide, you deserve to lick it.
Just go slow and keep it wet. It might take some time to build up your tongue strength and loosen up the opening, but I believe in you. Go forth and achieve your dreams.
If that moment of introspection concludes with you being happy with your path and current situation, then who am I to judge. Carry on with your ballonilingus and be happy.
I appreciate what you are trying to share, so this is just me venting.
I hate you tube!
Having to sign in is annoying. Having the absolute LIE that it has anything to do with protecting the community is infuriating.
I try and never use youtube, then I am reminded why. Yes I know how to use the plethora of alternative front ends, but I simply dont want to play the game.
Technically, Piped is not just a frontend... How about setting up a redirect? I used to provide links to piped.video like the annoying bot but then I realized it's decentralized and everyone using Piped probably has a redirect (or link-handling app) set up to their preferred instance.
BTW, there's an Internet Archive mirror of the video available as a plain file or in their online player The reference is at 9:57 but the whole thing is worth it.
The Technical Difficulties team still does stuff together but I think the contestants realized the articles from later, better seasons all come from the Unusual Articles list, spoiling the surprise and ending Citation Needed. Also, Matt has since come out as transgender and accepts any pronouns but doesn't want to talk more about it: no wonder since (s)he's British.
Thank you, I came here to see if it was at least somewhat safe to lick uranium, I don’t have access to it but if I ever did I wouldve tried because that sounds like a badass story to tell at a bar/party
The long-lived isotopes of uranium are about as dangerous as lead, actually: heavy metal poisoning is the overwhelming concern. Same as bismuth, which is effectively stable and incorrectly marked "Probably fine".
Can you lick a gas? I would think it would need to be at least liquid, and once some of these are in a lickable state you probably wouldn't want to go ahead and do it.
Most of atoms can't be find as a pure form (metal/crystal or pair). You may have licked magnesium oxyde (MgO), but not magnesium as an explosive metal.
Ah, I see I've fallen for the classic ambiguity - I was assuming the vast chemistry arena we were licking things in was not a frictionless vacuum. Yes, it's hypothetically pyrophoric with water; though it would require some prodegious amounts of slobber (or some small amount of effort) to produce that effect just by licking it - and I'm not entirely sure how well human salivary glands operate under vacuum conditions....
The chemistry of calcium is that of a typical heavy alkaline earth metal. For example, calcium spontaneously reacts with water more quickly than magnesium but less quickly than strontium to produce calcium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. It also reacts with the oxygen and nitrogen in air to form a mixture of calcium oxide and calcium nitride.[14] When finely divided, it spontaneously burns in air to produce the nitride. Bulk calcium is less reactive: it quickly forms a hydration coating in moist air, but below 30% relative humidity it may be stored indefinitely at room temperature.[15]
Because calcium reacts exothermically with water and acids, calcium metal coming into contact with bodily moisture results in severe corrosive irritation.[59] When swallowed, calcium metal has the same effect on the mouth, oesophagus, and stomach, and can be fatal.[46] However, long-term exposure is not known to have distinct adverse effects.[59]
Thats a lot of alkali metals to have had in your mouth. I thought they all explode/burn when in contact with water. And I am pretty sure the inside of a mouth is wet
If lead is "maybe not a good idea", the rest of these must be really bad ideas. I like that there's still 2 more levels above lead. I assume the second level just explodes or vaporises you instantly or something.
And from what I can see, many of them are only rated "you really shouldn't". Which leads me to consider what the next step up in severity could possibly be.
Technetium really should be purple. The isotope that you'd be most likely to get some of (used for nuclear medicine) has a half-life of about 6 hours, and is appropriately radioactive.
Good luck finding enough Astatine to lick. It's the rarest naturally-occurring element on earth. It's estimated there is less than 30 grams in earth's crust at any given time.
I'm glad someone listened to me a couple years back. The first comment I ever made on Lemmy was on the original version of this, pointing out that Magnesium was DEFINITELY fine to lick.
The oxide layer forms within seconds, like aluminium and sodium (the two elements surrounding it), and even if you scraped it off and stuck it on your tongue, it isn't going to react quickly enough to do you any damage. It will probably taste slightly bitter, like licking baking soda. I have some downstairs. Shall I test it and take a video of the results?
My undergraduate institution had an undetected americium spill that turned out to be a problem. I believe they ended up providing the means for every staff member who had been in the room to be tested for pulmonary damage.
114 Comments
luthis@lemmy.nz · 55 pts · 37d
Everything that isn't green should be 'definitely not' and several green ones are questionable
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 35 pts · 37d
The particular form the element is in also matters a lot.
Take helium, for example. Is it really possible to 'lick' a gas? I'd say it's not. You could lick liquid helium, though ... and you really shouldn't, unless you enjoy severe frostbite on your tongue.
snarkysadierose@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
if i stick my tongue out i would probably consider that as licking air, so you would just have to be submerged in that gas for a long enough time to lick it
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 35d
What? No. The Leidenfrost effect would apply. You could pour a few milliliters of liquid helium over your tongue and it would boil on contact. You just need to make sure to minimize total contact time.
neo2478@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 37d
You can totally lick Sodium! Its natures poprocks!
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 12 pts · 37d
In theory, if you dry enough your tongue, you can lick sodium, i wouldn't keep it on my tongue longer tha 0.5s tho
well, i wouldn't keep it on my tongue at all tbf
0ops@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 36d
Ok who gave the goat internet access?
fartographer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
I ate a banana and now I have summer teeth
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 36 pts · 37d
It's 100% accurate. But just in case, could you have the map on you when you go around licking things? The resultant news article will be way funnier that way.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 37d
Sure! I'll keep that in mind for my next lickpacking tour across Europe.
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 37d
Gonna have to vet the Blarney Stone before I lick it. Could be made out of anything.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 37d
Because everything exists in Europe :-D
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 37d
not everything. Just Licktenstein.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 36d
Well done!
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 31 pts · 36d
Na: bad. Cl: bad. NaCl: amazing!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 29 pts · 37d
Some of the purple ones have a time limit to lick them before you die that starts once you enter the room they are kept. You'll still die after licking them, but you would at least have licked it if you're quick.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 37d
So those are "yes, but hurry"?
jots down in notebook
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 36d
Many can't be "kept" on the time scale of licking. And for some, the confirmed number of atoms ever existing is too low for any sensation or measurable radiation exposure during their violent but tiny decay. But if the particle accelerator beam, the only place they ever existed, crossed your head... we unfortunately know what happens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#Accident
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 37d
Pshh. You can lick any of them once.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 37d
You really shouldn't, though.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 37d
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 37d
I can be, though, if you ask nicely..
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 37d
Oganesson has a half-life of about 0.7 ms and is excruciatingly difficult to synthesize in a way that even lasts on the order of milliseconds. The beam it's created in is sent to a semiconductor detector. You'd be stretching the definition of "lick" very heavily if you could even convolute a way to make it land on the human tongue.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 37d
Easy, just send the beam to their tongue instead of the duperwhatsit detector. Bam. Licked.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 36d
My dog running straight at me after a solid 15 at the butthole buffet.
boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 36d
If you can get your tongue inside the machinery they use at Lawrence Livermore to create a split-second instance of some rare Earth actinide, you deserve to lick it.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 18 pts · 36d
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 36d
... How exactly would you lick hydrogen? Or helium for yhsy matter...
RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 36d
hansolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 36d
New fetish unlocked, but still hidden behind balloon sphincter.
Godric@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 36d
Tounguepunching the gas sphincter, oh joy
RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 36d
Just go slow and keep it wet. It might take some time to build up your tongue strength and loosen up the opening, but I believe in you. Go forth and achieve your dreams.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 36d
Thanks for believing in me :D
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 36d
OR
New kink unlocked
RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 36d
If that moment of introspection concludes with you being happy with your path and current situation, then who am I to judge. Carry on with your ballonilingus and be happy.
orlyowl@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 36d
That's gotta be a sentence no one has ever said before.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 35d
And, dare we hope, never again
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 36d
Etterra@discuss.online · 17 pts · 36d
Okay if you think licking lead and uranium is maybe not a good idea then I think you need to reevaluate your decision making skills.
Soup@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 36d
I wouldn’t lick lead as a hobby, but a quick one wouldn’t be the end of things.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 36d
So you're saying that it's a GREAT idea?
Etterra@discuss.online · 6 pts · 36d
You know what, sure, why the hell not. I'll see you on the Darwin Awards lol
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 36d
Lead lolly, yellow lolly
This is a joke by Tom Scott in one of the best Citation Needed episodes.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 35d
I appreciate what you are trying to share, so this is just me venting.
I hate you tube!
Having to sign in is annoying. Having the absolute LIE that it has anything to do with protecting the community is infuriating.
I try and never use youtube, then I am reminded why. Yes I know how to use the plethora of alternative front ends, but I simply dont want to play the game.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 35d
Technically, Piped is not just a frontend... How about setting up a redirect? I used to provide links to piped.video like the annoying bot but then I realized it's decentralized and everyone using Piped probably has a redirect (or link-handling app) set up to their preferred instance.
BTW, there's an Internet Archive mirror of the video available as a plain file or in their online player The reference is at 9:57 but the whole thing is worth it.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 35d
Thanks so much. A solution was far more then expected, thats really nice of you.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 1 pts · 35d
The Technical Difficulties team still does stuff together but I think the contestants realized the articles from later, better seasons all come from the Unusual Articles list, spoiling the surprise and ending Citation Needed. Also, Matt has since come out as transgender and accepts any pronouns but doesn't want to talk more about it: no wonder since (s)he's British.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 35d
Thank you, I came here to see if it was at least somewhat safe to lick uranium, I don’t have access to it but if I ever did I wouldve tried because that sounds like a badass story to tell at a bar/party
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Definitely don't do it.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 34d
Yeah that was my standing rule until this chart threw it into question. But thanks for rehardening it
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 3 pts · 36d
The long-lived isotopes of uranium are about as dangerous as lead, actually: heavy metal poisoning is the overwhelming concern. Same as bismuth, which is effectively stable and incorrectly marked "Probably fine".
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 37d
The periodic table is surprisingly lickable.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 37d
Coming from someone identifying as salt, that's high praise! 😁
Juviz@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 36d
It’s really funny, yesterday I saw a dude walk around with a T-shirt with exactly this periodic table and thought it was hilarious and now I find this
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 36d
Did you lick him?
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 37d
Licking calcium is fine?
I guess if you're okay with the nasty burn...
Bashnagdul@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 36d
Won't kill you is this tables version of fine.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
In that case, sodium and potassium should be fine too
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 36d
The same people think sulfur is "probably okay"
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
Pure sulfur is unreactive with water, so I can't imagine it doing meaningful harm with just one lick.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 37d
You can lick everything, but some only one time
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 3 pts · 37d
Can I lick it? (Yes, you can)
Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
But Can I Kick It?
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
It's about whether you die before you can reach it
socsa@piefed.social · 1 pts · 35d
You can lick radium for years!
Davel23@fedia.io · 14 pts · 37d
Can you lick a gas? I would think it would need to be at least liquid, and once some of these are in a lickable state you probably wouldn't want to go ahead and do it.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 5 pts · 37d
I’ve just licked some hydrogen
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
You dirty gasophile
socsa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 35d
I have nipples, Greg. Can you lick me?
Davel23@fedia.io · 2 pts · 35d
Can I? Yes. Will I?... How much you got?
socsa@piefed.social · 3 pts · 35d
Two nipples
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 37d
why is it fine to lick calcium? wouldn't that cause sever burns?
Liz@midwest.social · 12 pts · 37d
It would, don't do it. There's more than one questionable assignment on the table including magnesium right above it.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 37d
Magnesium's fine, I've licked it. Held some magnesium tape in my mouth once while mixing the thermite.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
Wait, why shouldn't you lick magnesium? I've done that plenty of times (for giant dumbass reasons) and I'm no worse off than before I licked it...
Sphks@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 37d
Most of atoms can't be find as a pure form (metal/crystal or pair). You may have licked magnesium oxyde (MgO), but not magnesium as an explosive metal.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
Ah, I see I've fallen for the classic ambiguity - I was assuming the vast chemistry arena we were licking things in was not a frictionless vacuum. Yes, it's hypothetically pyrophoric with water; though it would require some prodegious amounts of slobber (or some small amount of effort) to produce that effect just by licking it - and I'm not entirely sure how well human salivary glands operate under vacuum conditions....
Liz@midwest.social · 2 pts · 36d
Yeah I guess that's true, your salvia probably isn't penetrating the oxide layer with enough vigor to be too much of a concern. Don't eat it though!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Kk9rderPRnE
spectrums_coherence@piefed.social · 11 pts · 36d
I wouldn't advise licking calciums:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_oxide
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 36d
So.. I should lick it fast and then hide from the effects under a table?
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 36d
Lick it then chug some vinegar
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 36d
If you find enough oganesson to lick, you should get to do it
bryndos@fedia.io · 10 pts · 37d
Can you lick a gas? Or do you have to cool it down until liquid?
j5y7@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 37d
My brother once farted so bad I could taste it.
waggz@programming.dev · 1 pts · 37d
thank you for my first guffaw of the week
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 35d
I posted this a long time ago. Got sent Cody's Labs list, and it was very different. He has licked so many...
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 35d
The goat
groet@feddit.org · 2 pts · 35d
Thats a lot of alkali metals to have had in your mouth. I thought they all explode/burn when in contact with water. And I am pretty sure the inside of a mouth is wet
realitista@lemmus.org · 10 pts · 37d
If lead is "maybe not a good idea", the rest of these must be really bad ideas. I like that there's still 2 more levels above lead. I assume the second level just explodes or vaporises you instantly or something.
BitUnWise@programming.dev · 7 pts · 37d
Licking lead once is completely fine, just don't make a habit of it
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 6 pts · 37d
Some of these would explode on contact with your tongue, yes.
realitista@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 37d
And from what I can see, many of them are only rated "you really shouldn't". Which leads me to consider what the next step up in severity could possibly be.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 37d
Your own flesh burns yourself to death.
realitista@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 36d
Admittedly unpleasant.
GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io · 3 pts · 37d
Come on, it can't be that bad if we build water pipes with it
;^)
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 36d
The good version of this says "see you on the other side".
zener_diode@feddit.org · 8 pts · 37d
Technetium really should be purple. The isotope that you'd be most likely to get some of (used for nuclear medicine) has a half-life of about 6 hours, and is appropriately radioactive.
crimsonpoodle@pawb.social · 7 pts · 36d
How many licks to get to the center of a sodium lollipop
WiredBrain@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 36d
If you have enough saliva, just one...
Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 36d
Gas at room temperature? Probably not a good thing to lick when it is liquid nor solid.
chunes@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 35d
Good luck finding enough Astatine to lick. It's the rarest naturally-occurring element on earth. It's estimated there is less than 30 grams in earth's crust at any given time.
myotheraccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Did anyone ever find any?
chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Yes, but we still don't know its bulk properties.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 35d
I'm glad someone listened to me a couple years back. The first comment I ever made on Lemmy was on the original version of this, pointing out that Magnesium was DEFINITELY fine to lick.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
If it's got a nice oxide layer on the outside, fine. Otherwise it's fairly reactive.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 35d
The oxide layer forms within seconds, like aluminium and sodium (the two elements surrounding it), and even if you scraped it off and stuck it on your tongue, it isn't going to react quickly enough to do you any damage. It will probably taste slightly bitter, like licking baking soda. I have some downstairs. Shall I test it and take a video of the results?
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
😏 Are you a green element on the periodic table? Cause I wanna lick you
thousandyardstare@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 37d
I'm wearing that picture on a shirt right now!
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 36d
O₂ or O₃? How about isotopes?
cardamon@leminal.space · 2 pts · 35d
how can something be 'maybe not a good idea' on a lickability scale but also be used as a medication?
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 35d
Well, you saw that uranium is colored yellow so...
Redfox8@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 37d
In so far that it's such a terrible map, that it's not a nap at all, yes! Totally accurate.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 35d
Yeah maybe mixing up medicines and giving 11 year old me iodine tincture to drink wasn't the best move
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
Do not lick Am
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
My undergraduate institution had an undetected americium spill that turned out to be a problem. I believe they ended up providing the means for every staff member who had been in the room to be tested for pulmonary damage.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 37d
Can you lick it? Well do you have a tongue, if so then, yes, you can lick it.
Should you lick it is a better question though...